Malmgren, 1867
Description:
Body usually either short and stocky or long and slender, often swolen anteriorly. Integument usually wrinkled or reticulated.
Prostomium truncate or T-shaped, without antennae or palps.
Peristomium a ring partially subdivided into two dorsally and laterally.
Segments bi-, tri- or 4-annulate. First segment similar to next following segment, with fully developed, but small parapodia.
Parapodia biramous, without aciculae. Tentacular cirri absent. Dorsal and ventral cirri present or absent. Gills branching or absent. Chaetae variously ornamented capillaries, forked chaetae and sometimes spines in anterior parapodia.
Pygidium with multiple papillae (Scalibregmidae).
For identification to species level, jump to the Picture key: Page 196: Scalibregmatidae
The following taxa of this family occur in the region:
Genus Asclerocheilus
Genus Lipobranchus
Genus Polyphysia
Genus Scalibregma
Asclerocheilus intermedius
Lipobranchus jeffreysii
Polyphysia crassa
Scalibregma inflatum